Love that keeps you warm

Posted on January 15, 2023 by aperture

Finest ink bleeds in time with percussive beats
Knowing well each drop more precious than gold

Unlike the burst of black cloud shrouding fear
Tentacles shooting across infested waters

Knowing where to find the spark for perpetuity
A lifeline in veins of penned prose

Splayed in restless phrases seeking
To be absorbed by stark gaze

On the pure chance her and I might be the same
Apart from desire to pour presence into silence

Stand fast like a tidal wall as passing rush
Tsunami crawls back to capacious sea

Entranced with affect, she pours into me veritable
Encyclopedia of past dreams evading dust of settling

Vain hopefulness turns weather crow 'round
Conjuring up necessary resistance to passing storms

Time together a transfusion
A love that keeps you warm

Chance

Posted on January 14, 2023 by aperture

Oh, what perpetual state of bliss
To go back to that time and place
To relive moments again
Not just in the mind
When we might have had
A chance

Becoming

Posted on January 8, 2023 by aperture

So tempted
To become someone 
You would love

Entwined

Posted on January 8, 2023 by aperture

Kin in every respect 
Yet face another way 
To ask you to turn
In my direction 
Would be unfair 
Devastating 
To ask you
To uproot 
Give up seaview
I never would
As close as I can
With my back to you 
Moments we claimed
Need never erase
Share light, warmth
Shelter and shade
Feathered guests
Build nests
In our minds
Entwined

Safety

Posted on January 7, 2023 by aperture

Incantations of solitude
Splayed all over 
Iridescent pages
Wiped by finger wand
In an instant

Sweet torment of longing
For deeper waters
Treading still
Yet running 
In ruminations

Creatures lurk 
Prod and pull 
At my toes
Envious of airborne 
View below treetops

A curtain moves
Lights fade
My heart gallops
At the notion
A bond could not
Be saved

Taking time

Posted on January 3, 2023 by aperture

Time and time again
Our footsteps find
The path that winds
Back to where 
Our heart wound
Sings for solace
Giving it the love
We grew accustomed to
Until our mind
Direction-finding
Breaks through
Finds the compassion
To love the child
Within

Awakening

Posted on January 2, 2023 by aperture

My soul reaches out
Like morning rays
Touching dew drop
Falling from new leaf
Turned over
Each morning I wake
See you and wish
To dry fresh tears
With new found smiles

Southern front

Posted on January 1, 2023 by aperture

Flying in formation 
I admire commitment 
To one another 
Through all weathers
Looking to the heavens
For inspiration 
Direction finding
Decision laden
Feather-like mine
Wondering where
You're flying
Shelter within
Together while
Wind and storm rage 
Our souls tied
Calms the storm
Inside

*Cape Barren Geese on Maria Island, Tasmania*

Ad infinitum

Posted on December 30, 2022 by aperture

I choose to give all 
Love willingly
Receive

While holding on to
The rest of me, daily
Revive

Love a turning of seasons 
To renew not survive
Enliven

Sound of silence

Posted on December 29, 2022 by aperture

Modern living presents 
Small portrait-sized
Black-mirror windows
Into foreign lands 
Full of pop wisdom
Highs like sherbet sticks
Rainbows that fade soon as
We hit the power button

We are not bound up in pixels
Love hearts, thumbs up
To bow your neck
Squint though fingerprints
Smile lingers only a moment

I give you sunrise and sunsets
Wishing stones falling through
Lapping waves glistening
Paw prints and hellos

I give you the awkward moments
When I realise I poured my heart out
You received it willingly
I am silent in thankfulness

I hold my breath waiting
For you to speak
Exhaled step by step 
Cadence of time together
Waiting for one another
In the sound of silence